Feeling lousy right now?

The Rockford Ice Hogs have dropped five straight after zooming to the top of the West Division behind Bill Peters, a former San Antonio amateur hockey legend. Main culprit? Seven goals in those five games. Seems to a pattern here.

Some former Rampage players are also sputtering early on this season.

Jon DiSalvatore, who has averaged 22 goals a season, including 22 last year with the Rampage, has only one goal in 12 games with the Lowell Devils.

Matt Murley is reported to be on a Russian team, but hasn’t played yet. You may remember Kyle Wanvig from his days with the Houston Aeros — he’s playing there. When I spoke with former Dragons goaltender Bruce Racine last year, he said it takes a special person to play in Russia, since many of the teams are in remote locations and the lifestyle is completely different. Racer went to go play there in 2001 but couldn’t stand it, flew home through Franfurt, Germany and was stranded in the airport. His travel day? September 11, 2001.

Wouldn’t want to be a Rochester Americans fan. First of all, they have to deal with the indifference of the Florida Panthers organization, but second of all, the Amerks were last a year ago in the AHL and they are off to a 2-11-0-0 start with 26 goals in those 13 games — they’ve allowed 60 as well, compared to 41 surrendered by your S.A. Rampage. Former Peoria Riverman goaltender Chris Beckford-Seau has both wins with a 4.11 GAA.

Interesting coincidence? The only four AHL teams without a 10-point scorer on their team are Albany, Manchester, Rochester and San Antonio. All four teams just happen to be in the cellar of their respective divisions. Translation — you gotta have a go-to guy or two on your team to get the W’s.

HOWEVER …

Some alumni are doing OK in other uni’s this season.

Chris Durno has three goals in 12 games with Lake Erie after signing with the Avalanche organization. Durno provided some excitement with the “Play of the Year” last season when he scored with .4 left in regulation. It was the biggest of his 23 Rampage goals.

Joey Tenute has six goals in 18 games with Jokerit, Finland — he’s the team’s leading scorer with 15 points.

Cam Paddock has three goals and an assist in a dozen games with Peoria. He scored 12 last year with S.A.

Mike Zigomanis has a goal and two assists in 12 games with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Sure was kinda fun watching Mike on the power play with Malkin and Crosby in the Pens’ come-from-behind win over Detroit Tuesday.

Ryan Caldwell has 2-4-6 with 55 penalty minutes with a German team in 17 games.

Bryan Helmer has seven assists in 15 games with Hershey.

Josh Gratton was 2-3-5 in seven games with Milwaukee before a trade sent him to Philadelphia, where he played two scoreless games with the Phantoms before a one game call-up to the Flyers.

Bill Thomas started the season with a couple of games in Pittsburgh with the Penguins but is now with WB/Scranton, where he’s 1-3-4 in a half-dozen contests.

Nate DiCasmirro has a goal with Bolzano of the Italian league. Guess who are two of his teammates? Ryan Jardine, the Rampage all-time leader in games played with 163, and Josh Olson, a gifted winger who could never find the toughness needed to make it to the NHL, who played 140 games with S.A.

Olivier Latendresse has a new lease on life with the Cincinnati Cyclones of the ECHL. The former Coyotes draftee, who once scored 125 points in junior hockey, has 8-4-12 in just 10 games, 17th in the league.

Yanick Lehoux has 5-8-13 in 14 games with Hamilton. Lehoux is the second all-time leader scorer for the Rampage with 91 points, just four points behind all-time leader, Mike Green.

Any idea who is third?

Eric Beaudoin, who has played in Finland and Sweden the last four years. Beaudy scored 89 points in 111 games for San Antonio.

Anyway, this current crop of Rampage players is taking a step backwards at the moment — back to 2005-6, when the Pat Conacher coached team went 23-50-3-4 with 153 goals in 80 games. And that’s not a good step, folks.

However, Greg Ireland is an excellent coach and if anyone can turn this thing around it’s GI. I remember his Grand Rapids teams coming into the place and players were always in the right place at the right time and always beat the home team. The Rampage need some of that magic right now.